Failing Better
I was dating someone a while back. Doesn’t matter who. It ended. Shortly afterwards I started receiving emails from sockpuppet accounts on an online dating site which we both frequented. It was easy enough to tell who they were from, because after a few how-are-you your-profile-looks-interesting getting-to-know-you exchanges, they would make the same claim as the person whom […]
So Jason Arnopp tagged me into this a while back, and today’s the day to publish my answers! It’s a sort of Q&A thing about my writing. Gosh, this takes me back. I remember in the days before Twitter, where everyone updated their blogs on a weekly basis, these things used to go round all the […]
I was living in Los Angeles when Ronald Reagan died. The body was lying in repose in the Presidential Library in Simi Valley, just to the north-west of LA, so I went to see it. I thought: I’ll probably never get the chance to pay my respects to such a historical figure again, so I […]
You’ve seen them already, but you may not know what they’re called. When a movie has the credit as “A Film By” followed by a name (and it’s almost always the director’s name), that credit is known as a possessory credit. The director is saying that the film is theirs. You can find a quick history […]
So I’ve just finished ME3. For those of you that haven’t, be warned: This post will contain a lot of spoilers for the whole damn thing. Let me re-iterate. SPOILERS ABOUND. Do not read further if you plan to play the game. Last chance. SPOILERS. SPOILERS. SPOILERS. SPOILERS. SPOILERS. SPOILERS. SPOILERS. SPOILERS. Right. For the […]
Last night, 15,000 civilians tried to save the world from an alien invasion. We failed. If you’ve been following gaming news at all, you may be aware that Mass Effect 3 came out in the US today. So a couple of weeks ago, this Twitter feed starts up. Delayed Collider Now Online #AllianceNewsHeadline — AllianceNewsNetwork […]
I said goodbye to my Nanna this evening. For a significant part of the evening she thought I was called Bill, but that’s neither here nor there. Bill, I told her, was a perfectly good name, and would be just fine for tonight. Mostly, though, we just sat companionably watching the Christmas television. She was […]
I’m typing this on a MacBook Pro. It used to belong to my housemate, and now it’s mine. It makes my life better. My previous desktop computer was my first Mac – one of the early Mac minis – and is so old that it can’t play video from YouTube any more, and hasn’t been […]
So m’learned colleague Natt has blogged about the recent fracas in the Commons Select Committee. For those who missed it, here’s what happened: Rupert and James Murdoch were answering to a Commons Select Committee about what was known by them about phone hacking at the News of the World, and the possibility of a cover […]